Hi Lauren, I can't tell you anything about this cairn, but I do know Man O War Point is of historical significance. At this place the French had a fort and munitions depot back in the 1700's when Cape Breton was a French colony. It was destroyed by the English after they captured the island in 1758. Charlene McKenzie On 4-Dec-08, at 1:22 AM, lauren macdonald wrote: > still on this Cairn Farm thing - with interesting developments (sort > of) - or maybe I am trying to make them into a story - I had never > looked up the definiton of Cairn until today - and when i did, I > thought back to my visit to Aunt Laura's place and the current > opwner showing me a pile of rocks he had made. I played back my > video to hear him describe that it was an inukshuck - a directional > marking made by the inuit people of newfoundland /Labrador. I never > asked him why he made it - but I find it intersting that it is > basically the same meaning as a cairn - Current owner didn't know > why the farm was named cairn except that there are foundations all > around the property left from when it was burned down by the English. > > Am I boring you all or does anyone see some neat connection here? > So now I am wondering about a connection between the Micmacs and > inuits - were they basically in the same general area enough that > micmacs probably also built inukshucks? > I'm trying to write up siome neat little thing about connections in > history of the property > > --- On Wed, 12/3/08, George F. Sanborn Jr. <SeorasOg@eastlink.ca> > wrote: > From: George F. Sanborn Jr. <SeorasOg@eastlink.ca> > Subject: Re: [NS-CB] Cairn Farm > To: swayball20@yahoo.com, "cape breton mailing list" <ns-cape-breton@rootsweb.com > > > Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 9:40 AM > > Maybe because there was a cairn on the property? > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "lauren macdonald" > <swayball20@yahoo.com> > To: "cape breton mailing list" <ns-cape-breton@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 10:32 AM > Subject: [NS-CB] Cairn Farm > > >> Taking a stab here - No one in my family knows the answer (though i >> do > have a call out to a cousin), so I'm hoping someone here will know > or add to > my guess - My aunt who lived at man O War Point, Boularderie, named > her property > (or at least had a sign on her barn), "Cairn Farm" Any guesses at why? >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NS-CAPE-BRETON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NS-CAPE-BRETON-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message